Sui: a record 40 million transactions per second, with one important caveat

Sui: a record 40 million transactions per second, with one important caveat
🧐 Background

💡 In a live test, Sui peaked at 40,614,180 transactions per second, surpassing the previous record of 6 million

🔥 The test was conducted with the participation of users and AI agents across payments, gaming, and chat

Focus

🧐 The key point is that the 40 million transactions were not processed directly on Sui's main layer, but executed in programmable off-chain "tunnels" and settled on the main network upon closing

💡 Sui says more than 10,000 tunnels were created simultaneously on the mainnet, and the result was verified by an independent observer during the test

🔥 So the figure mainly reflects the capacity of the tunnel architecture for the agentic economy, not 40 million independent, instantaneous transactions on the main layer

Implications

💡 If this architecture holds up at real-world scale, payments, gaming, chat, and machine-to-machine interactions could shift far more heavily to decentralized infrastructure

🧐 But the test should not yet be taken as support for the claim of "40 million real on-chain transactions"

Conclusion

🔥 Sui's record matters, but the real revolution lies not in the number 40 million, but in the ability to move the massive volume of AI agent interactions into channels with verifiable settlement on the blockchain

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